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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 3:69:8

وَمَا

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
وَمَا Quranic text
Simple
وَمَا
Without tashkeel
وما
Normalised (searchable)
وما

Position

Computed
Verse
3:69
Word in verse
8
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:3:69:8

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
and not
Transliteration
wamā
Root
none — this word has no triliteral root
Lemma
ما
Part of speech
Negative particle (NEG)
Features

Sub-word segments

  1. وَprefix · REM
  2. مَاstem · NEG

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 3:69 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

A party of the People of the Book would love to lead you astray, but they only lead themselves astray, and they do not realize it
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
A party of the People of the Scripture long to make you go astray; and they make none to go astray except themselves, but they perceive not
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
A party among the people of the Book would fain mislead you: but they only mislead themselves, and perceive it not
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
A sect of the people of the Book would fain they could lead you astray, but they only lead themselves astray, and they do not perceive
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 512 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form وَمَا appears 512 times in the corpus.

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